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In many states, seats on the commissions that oversee and set policy for state wildlife and/or game and fish agencies are political appointments, with the only qualification being your level of friendship and/or monetary donation to whomever (usually governors) appoints the post. And as hunters in states with such arrangements surely know, this sometimes means they are "represented" by "wildlife" commissioners who have their own, rather than wildlife or hunters' best interests at heart. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes they come right out and say it, like the Nevada wildlife commissioner who wants to ban the state's sage grouse season because he's worried the bird's possible listing under the Endangered Species Act might eventually inconvenience oil and gas development, mining, livestock grazing on public land and the construction of transmission lines. Really...

From this story on seattlepi.com: The Nevada Wildlife Commission is being asked to ban hunting for sage grouse statewide as a way to help keep the bird off the federal list of threatened and endangered species, while state biologists say hunting has little impact on its population. Commissioner Henry Vogler said he intends to press for the closure of the hunting season during the panel's meeting Friday and Saturday in Fallon.

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